The Witcher 3 Pre-Release Thread [GAME RELEASED, GO TO NEW THREAD]

[hivemind]

I miss sex cards.

 

[Karwelas]

My CE sold for $405 on ebay. I guess I'll buy me a 970 now and get the game for free.

CE?

 

[Executr]

Launch Trailer:


Edit: Warning! Contains spoilers.

 

[Alienman]

Polish prime minister will be on the Witcher 3 release party?

 

[Perkel]

OUT NOW.
Fuck you then i will buy it fucking tomorrow.

Polish prime minister will be on the Witcher 3 release party?

He sent already invitation to white house.

 

[abnaxus]

lel they cant even get the music right

 

[hivemind]

>over 200 awards before the game is released
this is just funny at this point

 

[Gerrard]

Kurwa

 

[Perkel]

Abso Fucking lutely Thaller is in game. Best spy ever.

 

[hivemind]

shit trailer, like actually terrible

but it showed broche so I don't mind that much

Edit: well it's not roche it seems

whatever taler is also alright

just wish siegfried would also show up

 

[abnaxus]

Ves is fucking ugly.

 

[Karwelas]

Launch Trailer:

1:54 - WHAT. They burned fucking Vesemir?!
2:38 - Zoltan and Jasker!
2:40 - Blue Bros!
2:42 - Talar, kurwa! And Letho later.
2:47 - Blind Fillipa.

 

[fizzelopeguss]

With the release of The Witcher III: Wild Hunt™, the Polish race has reached dharmic transcendence.

 

[Alienman]

Still hot, mrs. blinded

 

[Perkel]

Thaller: FACE OF THE MAN WHO FUCKED YOUR SHANNI

tw1 thaller:

 

[Comrade Goby]

Game is still goty

Stay mad plebs

Why would I be mad that you play shit games?

I'm not mad just mad you guys can't enjoy things.

Sometimes in life not everything has to attain some impossible ideal in order to be enjoyable

Enjoy this! *grabs crotch*

We're all just very tired of bs advertising. There is a certain acceptable limit, in other products. Video game advertising has no standards at all, say what you want about anything, make videos in media player and pretend it's in game footage. Say one thing one week, go back on your word next week, back pedal some more in the next announcement. Blatantly claim you have changed things from last iteration of the game when in fact you didn't even think about it. Blah blah blah.

The rage here is mostly for cdr not the typical AAA, console crap they created.

All the lies, marketing bullshit, forum police state behavior and utterly failed damage control all contributed to the hate, which has cdpr now promoted to the big leagues. The companies from which you expect nothing more than stupid shit console craptoid games with an awesome button. Something you may buy accidentally while high or drunk or in bargain bundle just for lulz and posting funny pics or vids later.

The hate would be less if cdpr just said, a few years ago, look pc owners, we thank you for starting us up but now we dont give a fuck bout the pc anymore, we want to play with the big boys and get all those console monies OK? So we will make a console turd and maybe port it to pc if we have time and a cheap summer intern available to do the work for us, no promises though.

You guys are dumb if you never figured that out. As soon as I heard simultaneous release on all 3 platforms I knew what was going to happen. You think watching the AAA market for over a decade now would've clued you guys in, but did you really ever believe those OG gifs of W3 were real? Cmon cuz

 

[prodigydancer]

Thaller:

tw1 thaller:

Downgrade.

 

[darthaegis]

Thaller: FACE OF THE MAN WHO FUCKED YOUR SHANNI

tw1 thaller:

Looks a lot younger.

 

[made]

Time to GTFO of this thread before everyone goes crazy on the spoilers. See you suckers when I've ploughed the game with my own cock (so some time next year).

 

[Carrion]

IMO, writing is really good in both of the games, it's just TW1 is less friendly to newcomers.

I must disagree. I played TW1 without reading any of the books, and I thought everything about is was perfectly understandable. It didn't explain the full backstory of every single book character, but I didn't think it needed to. I'd say it was easier to get into TW1 than TW2, actually, because the former is more gentle with the way it feeds you information. At the start you're introduced to the witchers, Triss and the bad guys, there's a simple hook to get things going and then you're quite quickly on your way, exploring the world at your own pace and meeting new characters one at a time. No big exposion dumps, it just tells you what you need to know and lets you find out more on your own.

TW2, on the other hand, has pretty bad pacing issues and vomits exposition on the player for several hours at the beginning. It only lets you off the leash after spending about an hour in Flotsam, and by that point you've been told about the ending of TW1, told the background of the La Valette siege and the political situation of Temeria and the surrounding kingdoms, introduced to a dozen or so plot-critical characters (all of whom have very different roles in the game world) and twice as many secondary ones (some of whom are straight from the books and never appeared in the first game), shown all of the problems in Flotsam one by one, and all this while jumping from flashback to another and teaching the player all about the game mechanics. It doesn't help that the dialogue omits a lot of this information, as many things are only explained in the journal and Geralt generally knows much more about what's going on than the player does. Then the game lets you run around a bit until it repeats the same thing in Act 2. I really can't see it being easier to get into for new players, even though all of the necessary information is there as long as you pay attention.

 

[prodigydancer]

Looks a lot younger.

Yeah. The whole point about Thaler was that he was an old cynic and looked accordingly. Now he looks like some coke snorting disoriented dumbass. Fuck modern developers who don't understand their own games.

 

[Cadmus]

SPOILER ALL THE SHIT FROM NOW ON YOU FAGETS I WANT TO BE ABLE TO KEEP READING THIS THREAD

 

[SmartCheetah]

I wonder if they're gonna use same anti-piracy protection as before.

 

[hivemind]

SPOILER ALL THE SHIT FROM NOW ON YOU FAGETS I WANT TO BE ABLE TO KEEP READING THIS THREAD

Spoiler

dickbutt

 

[Stainless Veteran]

IMO, writing is really good in both of the games, it's just TW1 is less friendly to newcomers.

I must disagree. I played TW1 without reading any of the books, and I thought everything about is was perfectly understandable. It didn't explain the full backstory of every single book character, but I didn't think it needed to. I'd say it was easier to get into TW1 than TW2, actually, because the former is more gentle with the way it feeds you information. At the start you're introduced to the witchers, Triss and the bad guys, there's a simple hook to get things going and then you're quite quickly on your way, exploring the world at your own pace and meeting new characters one at a time. No big exposion dumps, it just tells you what you need to know and lets you find out more on your own.

TW2, on the other hand, has pretty bad pacing issues and vomits exposition on the player for several hours at the beginning. It only lets you off the leash after spending about an hour in Flotsam, and by that point you've been told about the ending of TW1, told the background of the La Valette siege and the political situation of Temeria and the surrounding kingdoms, introduced to a dozen or so plot-critical characters (all of whom have very different roles in the game world) and twice as many secondary ones (some of whom are straight from the books and never appeared in the first game), shown all of the problems in Flotsam one by one, and all this while jumping from flashback to another and teaching the player all about the game mechanics. It doesn't help that the dialogue omits a lot of this information, as many things are only explained in the journal and Geralt generally knows much more about what's going on than the player does. Then the game lets you run around a bit until it repeats the same thing in Act 2. I really can't see it being easier to get into for new players, even though all of the necessary information is there as long as you pay attention.

Maybe so, though generally TW2 was less confusing for newbies, or at least so I gathered from other resources (while on Codex a) everything is shit and b) many played TW2 after TW1 and/or read the books). As for journal - well, in TW1 it was superior, with that I agree.

 

[Doktor Best]

Witcher 1 was superior to Witcher 2 in almost every aspects. Its a damn fine crpg and everyone who claims otherwise deserves to play bethesda games in hell.